Apparently there is a poll out in the Islamic world indicating that a majority of them feel that the US is trying to weaken religion. I don’t entirely disagree. I also realize, though, that Islam is working twice as hard to extinguish Christianity… Maybe one day they’ll just cancel out!
More than 70 percent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world, a poll released on Tuesday showed.
The survey by WorldPublicOpinion.org also showed more than 40 percent thought that was the primary goal of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, while only 12 percent believed Washington’s aim was to protect the United States from attack.
“While U.S. leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people in the Islamic world clearly perceive the U.S. as being at war with Islam,” Steven Kull, editor at the Washington-based group, said in a statement.
The face-to-face survey, of between 1,000 and 1,200 people in each country from December to February, also found about 30 percent approved of attacks on U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf.
But 60 percent said suicide bombings were never justified and 67 percent believed Islam was opposed to attacks against civilians.